Competition-colonization trade-offs, competitive uncertainty, and the evolutionary assembly of species.

We utilize a standard competition-colonization metapopulation model in order to study the evolutionary assembly of species. Based on earlier work showing how models assuming strict competitive hierarchies will likely lead to runaway evolution and self-extinction for all species, we adopt a continuou...

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Main Authors: Pradeep Pillai, Frédéric Guichard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3308991?pdf=render